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Outside Music Label to release Sebastien Grainger’s debut

We got the EP a little while ago, now looking forward to the full length.

October 21st the Outside Music label will release Sebastien Graingers long-awaited debut album Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains. The album was written, recorded and mixed by Grainger at Giant Studio in Toronto with James Shaw (Metric) lending engineering assistance on a number of tracks. A host of other artists contribute to the album including: Leon Taheny (Germans), Nick Sewell (Illuminati) and Andrew Scott (Bicycles & The Meligrove Band). Expect big chords, soaring choruses, new directions, ‘rich layered arrangements and deep melodic undercurrents’.

Track Listing
01 Love Can Be So Mean
02 Who Do We Care For?
03 By Cover of Night (Fire Fight)
04 Im All Rage (Live 05)
05 I Hate My Friends
06 (Are There) Ways to Come Home?
07 Niagara
08 (I Am Like A) River
09 Love Is Not a Contest
10 American Names
11 Meet New Friends
12 Renegade Silence (feat. The Rhythm Method)

New Sebastien Grainger EP

On June 10th, Sebastien Grainger and The Mountains will release American Names (Outside), digital EP and 7″. The digital EP will be exclusive to iTunes Canada and will also be available for purchase at upcoming shows in the form of a poster with a unique code that will give access to the download.

Pretty cool.

How far off are we from a day when you can hear a song, think the word ‘purchase’, have it debit the chip in your head and download it to your cerebral cortex? Any day now.

Last time I wrote about Sebastien was almost a year ago. Since then, he’s hit the studio for this EP (giving it the ‘wall of sound’ effect) and assembled the touring band to pull it off live. The former drummer and vocalist of Death For Above 1979 has enlisted the help of friends Leon Taheny of Germans, Nick Sewell of the Illuminati and Andrew Scott of The Meligrove Band and The Bicycles. Still getting good opening slots as well. This guys has been sharing stages with (Bloc Party, Albert Hammond Jr., Metric).

Been listening to the EP and there is definitely a stand-out. A new version of Are There Ways To Come Home?, shortened to Ways To Come Home. Its sick, love it.

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Canadian Music Week 2007: Part 3

After a couple drinks

I’m thinking about getting that way tonight….

A couple shows peaked my interest. Chart magazine is throwing another bender at the Horseshoe. Its probably going to be packed all the way from You Say Party, We Say Die! (10pm) and Cadence Weapon (11pm) to Land Of Talk (midnight). Kill The Lights (1am) are also a great live band.

Head a little north to Bloor to catch the Outside Music showcase. Baby Eagle and Woolly Leaves (plus special guests?? could it be more cons?) (9pm), Rock Plaza Central (10pm), The Besnard Lakes (11pm), Pop Levi (midnight), We Are Wolves (1am), Sweet Thing (2am).

Finally, Stars of Track and Field headline a Wind Up Showcase at Revival. Support is The Silent Years.

Download Joyful by Rock Plaza Central.

Someone to keep us Warm by The Silent Years.